Telling the World

Here is a quote from Penn Jillette.

“And I’ve always said that I don’t respect people who don’t proselytize. I don’t respect that at all,” Jillette said at the time. “If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell or not getting eternal life or whatever, and you think that it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward.”

Jillette asked: “How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?”

Penn Jillette is an atheist who recognizes the heart of evangelism.  His quote can be found here.  https://livingwaters.com/mystery-man-who-gave-bible-to-famous-atheist-revealed/

Here is a quote from Charles H. Spurgeon.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

What is Eternal Life?

John 17:3, And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

This verse is not meant to convey “know of”.  There are lots of people who know of God but they don’t truly know him.  The word know (ginōskō) in John 17:3 is the same work used in Luke 1:34 when the angle of the Lord told Mary she will conceive a baby and Mary responded.  Luke 1:34, Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”  HCSB translation says, since I have not been intimate with a man.  The Amplified Bible also uses the word intimacy.   Eternal life comes from an intimate relationship with Jesus and not just a head knowledge.  Do you really know God?  You can get to know God and develop that intimate relationship with him by reading his Word and by talking (praying) to him. 

Shower Fresh

Sometimes taking a shower may seem like a chore that you just don’t feel like doing. Once you are washed and clean, you feel refreshed and grateful you did it. The same goes for the Word of God. Sometimes reading the Bible may seem like a chore but once you do it, you feel refreshed and are grateful you did. Reading the Word of God cleanses you. It takes away the dirt and filth of the world that gets stuck to you.

Ephesians 5:26, … having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.

1 Corinthians 6:11, And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.  See also Psalm 51:2.

John 15:3, You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

Acts 22:16, And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.

Ezekiel 36:25, I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

Titus 3:5, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

John 3:5, Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

When you get baptized, make sure you do a full immersion under the water and not just sprinkled as some people do with babies. Doing so is symbolic of going down and dying to self and then rising up to new life, fully cleansed from the sin and the dirt of this world. For your eternal spirit has united with God's and has been reborn into a new life. If you die before you get baptized, it's not a salvation issue. It's symbolic gestor that pleases God.

Take the time to read the Word, try one chapter a day. Most are not that long. Clean yourself every day with the Word of God. Jesus is described as the Word of God. To get to know Jesus you need to know the Word. If you know the Bible, you will not be pulled into false doctrines. There are many out there! People are dying every day who have not been cleansed of their sins because they believed the lies of man, instead of the truth of God's Word.

Jeremiah 17:5, Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.  Don’t blindly trust in your priest, pastor, church, Mom, Dad, or anyone else for your salvation. They could be wrong, and you would pay a high price if they are. Get it straight from the Word of God.

John 17:17, Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.